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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYPatrick McCreeryAssistant Dean, Global ProgramsB.S. 1989, Miami (Fla.); M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 2009, NewYorkPatrick McCreery’s teaching and research interests lie in the areas of sexual politics, familylife and the role of the symbolic child figure in the United States.At Gallatin, he teaches interdisciplinaryseminars that explore the politics of childhood, artistic representations of HIV-AIDS and the relationship between personal identity and social space.He is currently workingon a book that contextualizes Anita Bryant’s 1977 “Save Our Children” campaign within nationaldebates at the time over sexual autonomy, children’s perceived innocence and the rapidexpansion of civil rights in the 1960s and ’70s. Prof. McCreery has published essays in journalssuch as GLQ, New Labor Forum, Radical History Review and Social Text, and he coeditedthe anthology Out atWork:Building a Gay-LaborAlliance (University of Minnesota Press,2001).An accomplished administrator, he received Gallatin’s Adviser of Distinction Award in2006.Amy SpellacyAdministrative Director, M.A. ProgramB.A. 1995, University of St.Thomas; M.A. 1998, University of Iowa; Ph.D. 2006, University of IowaAmy Spellacy’s teaching and research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-centuryAmerican literature, literature of the Americas, U.S. Latino/a literature, and transnational literaryand cultural studies. Her dissertation, “Neighbors North and South: Literary Culture,Political Rhetoric and Inter-American Relations in the Era of the Good Neighbor Policy,1928-1948,” traces the deployment and circulation of the trope of the neighbor in social andcultural texts in the United States and Latin America.Prior to Gallatin,Amy was a lecturer andAssistant Director of Studies in the History and Literature program at Harvard, where shetaught interdisciplinary courses such as “American Road Narratives,” “Mexican AmericanCrossings” and “A Cultural History of the Banana.”Meredith TheemanSenior Class AdviserB.A. 2001,Vassar; M.Sc. 2003, University of Surrey (UK); M.Phil. 2006, Hunter College; Ph.D. 2010,CUNY (Graduate Center )Meredith L.Theeman is a social scientist with a Ph.D. in environmental psychology. Her researchand teaching interests include psychology, public health, epidemiology, mental health,place and behavior,light exposure and health narratives.Currently,she is working with and presentingdata on seasonally related mood and behavior change.As a higher education administrator,she is interested in instructional technology and institutional research.NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 51